psivchaz

Stop stop, I'm already sold, you don't have to keep making it sound better.

I suspect that in some cases it would even be cheaper for the businesses, having to run less plumbing and all. Bathrooms like that are a win for everyone.

It was a teenager about two years older who got it from their older brother. Unclear to me if it was shared intentionally or something else. Gross in its own way, perhaps, but not in a grooming way. We met in real life many years later when I happened to be on a work trip near where he lived, had some beers, he showed me around Boston. Nothing untoward happened.

Not my dad, but a friend on IRC gave me a login to a paid hentai site when I was 13. Considering it less bad than regular porn is probably a huge mistake, tbh. I'm not trying to shame anyone for their fetishes or anything, but I would have been perfectly happy with boobs and instead got a bunch of comics with fairies having sex with insects.

It's more odd to me that the ones who believe in original sin and forgiveness for everything are the ones anti-abortion and pro-execution.

I've really been trying hard to convince people to use Digital Ocean or GCP instead of AWS but it's a hard road. AWS has become the Microsoft Office of web services, where most companies won't even consider alternatives.

I'm a big fan of justice reform on a lot of things. We're way too harsh on so many things, and there's a bunch of stuff that shouldn't even be a crime. Drunk driving is not one of those things, fuck drunk drivers.

The thing that gets me is that it's true. It's a patchwork... of so many people taking more than they should and giving less than they should. If UHC tomorrow used every penny of the premiums they charge purely to cover healthcare, they still wouldn't fix the problem. A fix would require change to the pharmacies, the drug companies, the medical equipment companies, the hospitals and hospital networks, and more levels of bullshit middlemen than I even know exist. No single person, be they President or CEO or billionaire, can fix it.

He is still an asshole though. He is just pointing to the problem and saying "Good people are trying to fix it." Are they? Where's the evidence? I would love to read an article that made me think, "Yes, the healthcare industry is making one small step in the right direction" but it hasn't come up. If this dude wants me to sympathize with him or with Brian Thompson, he should say ONE THING that either of them has ever done to address the problems of the industry and make things genuinely better for everyone. My money is that he can't.

I want to live in an America where this guy specifically goes free and then later gets rich off of a book titled something like "If I Did It, This Was Why"

It's been a long time but I recall a study featured on Freakonomics where a national park tried different signs to get people to not steal rocks. Signs like, "Taking rocks hurts the ecosystem" and "Taking rocks is a crime."

The only effective one was something along the lines of, "A million people visit this park every year and leave things alone." Suggesting that telling people to do the right thing is less effective than peer pressure.

Sigh. The hope was fun while it lasted. He's too anti-capitalist for the right and too problematic for the left so no side will claim him, and they'll just devolve into claiming it was the other side for a bit before not caring anymore. No revolution to be found here, just more sadness.

I don't know the full history of corporate shenanigans, but it's my understanding that the beginning of it all was to help form businesses that no individual could afford to start. No single person should reasonably have the funds to build a factory with all of the expensive equipment and parts needed to make cell phones. So you get people together who think cell phones are a good idea, they all pitch in, and now you can afford to build it and they get to share in the profits when it succeeds.

I like the employee-owned idea, but it seems like it would be hard to get off the ground in industries that require huge upfront investments. Imagine you want to build a grocery store, but the land and the building and the initial stock all takes money so you have to ask the cashier for $10,000 up front before you can actually build the thing and later start paying them. I legitimately don't know, are there proposed ways to build these businesses but make them employee-owned?